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  • YardRat
    Well, lookie here...
    • Dec 2004
    • 86146
    #1

    Ticket demand outweighs availability for Bills-Steelers

    http://www.thestar.com/Sports/Football/article/410093


    Top ducat could go as high as $300 for Aug. 14 exhibition tilt between AFC rivals at Rogers Centre...

    With more requests for tickets than actual seats available, and prices rumoured to hit $300 for the top ducat, Toronto may indeed prove to be Bills Country North.

    Fans can register at www.billsintoronto.com for their chance to win the lottery for the opportunity to purchase tickets for the exhibition game and this year's regular-season game, expected to be played in December. No date or opponent has been set as yet.

    Registration for tickets closes April 24. There are only 53,000 seats at the Rogers Centre and requests for more than that have already been registered, with 3,500 signing up per day in the last week. Bills season-ticket holders (there were 48,000 last year), sponsors and Argo season-ticket holders have priority.

    Only after registration closes will the team announce ticket prices, not caring to comment on rumours that the price range had been determined – $75 to $300.
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  • Dujek
    Hall of Fame Zoner
    • Jan 2008
    • 7806
    #2
    Re: Ticket demand outweighs availability for Bills-Steelers

    The Chargers - Saints game in London has received almost 500,000 applications for the 90,000 tickets.

    I've got two sitting in the house.

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    • HHURRICANE
      Registered User
      • Mar 2005
      • 15490
      #3
      Re: Ticket demand outweighs availability for Bills-Steelers

      Toronto Bills.

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      • THATHURMANATOR
        Registered User
        • Jul 2002
        • 69112
        #4
        Re: Ticket demand outweighs availability for Bills-Steelers

        No they would be the Toronto scumbags.
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        • THATHURMANATOR
          Registered User
          • Jul 2002
          • 69112
          #5
          Re: Ticket demand outweighs availability for Bills-Steelers

          Why would someone want to pay so much for a preseason game?
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          • ddaryl
            Everything I post is sexual inuendo
            • Jan 2005
            • 10714
            #6
            Re: Ticket demand outweighs availability for Bills-Steelers

            Well if sharing the Bills with Toronto actually keeps the Bills in buffalo some then let it be done...

            but face facts ... the mere reality that Torontonians are willing to shell out buku bucks for a preseason NFL game pretty much demonstrates the reality of the Bills situation. Toronto has the money to compete agianst the big markets, and we need that revenue to compete with the NYC, Dallas, NE, and other big markets.... otherwise we will lose the Bills for sure.

            I don't care who steps up to the plate when the Bills are for sale, no owner can pay over 1 billion for the Bills and expect to be able to operate them in Buffalo alone...

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            • Mr. Miyagi
              Lecter's Little Bitch

              • Sep 2002
              • 53616
              #7
              Re: Ticket demand outweighs availability for Bills-Steelers

              I would have no problem with playing up to 2 regular season home games in Toronto after the 5 year deal, as long as the Bills are still the Buffalo Bills and the big Toronto market adopts and embraces us as a "home" team. We need as many fans as we can.
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              • RockStar36
                Dude's Little Ignorant Crony
                • Sep 2004
                • 24761
                #8
                Re: Ticket demand outweighs availability for Bills-Steelers

                Assuming the Bills stay in Buffalo I'm perfectly OK with them playing a game in Toronto. If a pre-season game can generate so much interest and make so much money then it's definitely good for the franchise.

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                • Michael82
                  Registered User
                  • Jul 2002
                  • 82330
                  #9
                  Re: Ticket demand outweighs availability for Bills-Steelers

                  Originally posted by RockStar36
                  Assuming the Bills stay in Buffalo I'm perfectly OK with them playing a game in Toronto. If a pre-season game can generate so much interest and make so much money then it's definitely good for the franchise.
                  I hope so.

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                  • THATHURMANATOR
                    Registered User
                    • Jul 2002
                    • 69112
                    #10
                    Re: Ticket demand outweighs availability for Bills-Steelers

                    Hell they can have all our preseason games for all I care.
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                    • im4bflo
                      the EPITOMY of PATHETIC
                      • Sep 2003
                      • 7000
                      #11
                      Re: Ticket demand outweighs availability for Bills-Steelers

                      There's also the huge hype about this game, this will not be a normal all season thing. Those hosers couldn't compete with the fans of WNY continuously.
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                      • jamze132
                        Registered User
                        • Jun 2003
                        • 29290
                        #12
                        Re: Ticket demand outweighs availability for Bills-Steelers

                        Toronto is better than L.A.

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                        • yordad
                          Registered User
                          • Dec 2007
                          • 11867
                          #13
                          Re: Ticket demand outweighs availability for Bills-Steelers

                          Well, hopefully they go to a preseason game and go "this sucks, I thought the NFL was more intense".
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                          • YardRat
                            Well, lookie here...
                            • Dec 2004
                            • 86146
                            #14
                            Re: Ticket demand outweighs availability for Bills-Steelers

                            Originally posted by ddaryl
                            Well if sharing the Bills with Toronto actually keeps the Bills in buffalo some then let it be done...

                            but face facts ... the mere reality that Torontonians are willing to shell out buku bucks for a preseason NFL game pretty much demonstrates the reality of the Bills situation. Toronto has the money to compete agianst the big markets, and we need that revenue to compete with the NYC, Dallas, NE, and other big markets.... otherwise we will lose the Bills for sure.

                            I don't care who steps up to the plate when the Bills are for sale, no owner can pay over 1 billion for the Bills and expect to be able to operate them in Buffalo alone...
                            I don't know how anybody could afford to buy the team and pay the relocation fee. Unimaginable.
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                            • Night Train
                              Retired - On Several Levels
                              • Jul 2005
                              • 33117
                              #15
                              Re: Ticket demand outweighs availability for Bills-Steelers

                              Originally posted by THATHURMANATOR
                              Why would someone want to pay so much for a preseason game?
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